1 Chronicles 2:22

22 and Segub was the father of Ja'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 2:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 2:22

And Segub begat Jair, who had twenty three cities in the land
of Gilead.
] Which, according to Kimchi, he inherited in right of his wife, which, he says, he took out of the land of Gilead; but they seem to be rather what he took by force of arms from the former inhabitants; see ( Numbers 32:41 ) .

1 Chronicles 2:22 In-Context

20 Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Bez'alel.

21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub;

22 and Segub was the father of Ja'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

23 But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-ja'ir, Kenath and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.

24 After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Eph'rathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Teko'a.